期刊
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
卷 83, 期 -, 页码 161-169出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.08.011
关键词
Multisensory; Cross-modal; Primary cortex; Humans; Brain imaging; Brain mapping; Vision
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation [320030-149982, P2LAP3_151771]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (National Centre of Competence in Research project SYNAPSY: The Synaptic Bases of Mental Disease) [51AU40-125759]
- Swiss Brain League
- Wellcome Trust [098434]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P2LAP3_151771] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
It has been nearly 10 years since Ghazanfar and Schroeder (2006) proposed that the neocortex is essentially multisensory in nature. However, it is only recently that sufficient and hard evidence that supports this proposal has accrued. We review evidence that activity within the human primary visual cortex plays an active role in multisensory processes and directly impacts behavioural outcome. This evidence emerges from a full pallet of human brain imaging and brain mapping methods with which multisensory processes are quantitatively assessed by taking advantage of particular strengths of each technique as well as advances in signal analyses. Several general conclusions about multisensory processes in primary visual cortex of humans are supported relatively solidly. First, haemodynamic methods (fMRI/PET) show that there is both convergence and integration occurring within primary visual cortex. Second, primary visual cortex is involved in multisensory processes during early post-stimulus stages (as revealed by EEG/ERNERFs as well as TMS). Third, multisensory effects in primary visual cortex directly impact behaviour and perception, as revealed by correlational (EEG/ERPs/ERFs) as well as more causal measures (TMS/tACS). While the provocative claim of Ghazanfar and Schroeder (2006) that the whole of neocortex is multisensory in function has yet to be demonstrated, this can now be considered established in the case of the human primary visual cortex. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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